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Contents 1 What is DRP? 1.1 DRPP 1.2 DQP 2 What does it do? 3 How does it work? 4 Figuring out DRP

What is DRP?

A very important piece of your strategy are driver race points (DRP). DRP is a total of the four primary skills (concentration, speed, racing line and stamina) and your driver’s experience. These DRP points are then distributed across five parameters: acceleration, braking, top speed, kerb use and racing line.

DRPP

The driver race points potential (DRPP) is an indication of how talented a driver can become. The DRPP is a culmination of their four primary skills and current experience points. Once all there primary skills have reached their potential the driver's DRPP will only increase with experience or on rare occasion when a primary skill gains a valued extra point above its normal limit.

DQP

Driver qualification points (DQP) are no longer used. In previous versions of F1T managers used all five primary skills (DQP) to setup and qualify with and then converted those to four skills for their DRP. This system is no longer used.

What does it do?

DRP has two major effects on your race. Firstly, it is a factor in determining how fast you can go. A higher DRP will result in better lap times. The second thing DRP does is effect the wear rate of your tyres. A very low DRP will result in high tyre wear, even with hard tyres.

A low DRP in the race will also cause your driver to lose form which will lower their DRP and make them slower for the next race until they can regain their lost form.

How does it work?

Assigning more points on one parameter means that the driver should concentrate his efforts more on that aspect of driving. Clearly, a driver should know how to drive better than the team's owner - you, but we thought it would be more interesting to let you participate not only in money management, but also get your hands on the actual racing and influence driver's performance. Assigning all points to top speed does not mean that driver will be very fast. In fact, each parameter has its' optimal value and if you push over it your driver will only become slower, locking tyres under braking or attacking kerbs too hard. However, if you use less than the optimal value of points on top speed for example, the driver will not be able to find the true speed of the car and will consistently be slower than he could. In general, it is recommended to rather assign a few points less than optimal value than over it.

Figuring out DRP

It would be quite easy to find that perfect DRP distribution if you had an infinite number of laps. However under race weekend conditions, when stress reaches its' maximum, time is limited and you can only drive 25 laps in practice, 15 in warm up and 4 in qualifying to find your optimal DRP. It may be more important to limit the number of laps you drive, because each lap causes wear to your car, including the engine and gearbox you will race with. So you should aim to find a good DRP distribution in 10-20 laps, leaving another 10 or so to fine tune it.

It is a good idea to drive your first practice lap with something like 20-50% of your DRP distributed equally on all parameters and then to increase number of points assigned on one of the parameters slowly lap by lap until you use approximately 80% of your points, so by lap 10 your DRP distribution will hopefully reach 80% (if you have used only 80% of DRP and on each parameter have assigned less than the optimum value). The last 20% may prove to be tricky and not only for you, sometimes even very experienced managers have a hard time finding more than 95% DRP distribution and have to race with a lower one, so 80% is a good start, but you will have to find a way to improve it quickly, because every lap effects your car wear and it may not be worth driving because the benefits are out-weighed by the wear on your car.

In addition to the limited number of laps, your reported DRP in practice, warm up, and qualification will vary as much as 3% below the true value to make it more difficult to find a perfect distribution. The DRP for the race will always be the true value.

Do not use all your DRP points on your very first practice lap. If you are just starting to play this game – you may not want use all your DRP points at all.

Do a few "setup & tune up" testing sessions if you are a beginner as they will let you learn to distribute DRP points and do set ups, and you will have 50 laps to do so.